But the subject matter is different: in the Middle Kingdom instead of Pharaohs crushing their enemies, you get quiet scenes from daily life. Here you see a boy driving donkeys to thresh out the grain on the top register and on the bottom men winnowing the threshed grain.

Another scene from the tomb of Ti

Over their heads, hieroglyphs explain what they are doing. In another picture, large birds wade in a swamp. They must be observed from nature. All these scenes represent daily life so that the dead person buried in the tomb will be able to do all these things, or have his servants and slaves do these things, in the afterlife.

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